Stephen Fleming's blog about academia, venture capital, and spaceships
A few weeks ago, I was at a Georgia Tech student event, the Convergence Innovation Competition. I was incredibly impressed by the quality of the student entrepreneurs. They were mostly Master's candidates in Computing or Electrical Engineering, While still at the competition, I tweeted: Of the first 28 student entrepreneurs I've met in … [Read more...]
Tim Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will be in Atlanta next week. ATDC and the Tech Entrepreneurs Society have arranged for him to speak to students only on Wednesday, 13 April, at 2:30 pm on the Georgia Tech campus. His topic will be "Future Technology Growth Areas and Opportunities." This is open to any currently enrolled … [Read more...]
Georgia Tech's colors are white and gold. It says so in both our fight songs (yes, we have two). Our mascot, the Rambling Wreck, is painted in white and gold. If you look on the official Communications & Marketing website, our gold is Pantone 124. We went through a few confused years when we hooked up with navy blue, but that ménage à trois was … [Read more...]
Georgia Tech's legislative priorities for 2011. … [Read more...]
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." – William Gibson, science fiction writer Those of us who grew up on The Jetsons may feel cheated. It's the 21st century, and we don't have flying cars, or Moon vacations, or Rosie the Robot cooking our meals. … [Read more...]
Buzz at Geekend 2010 in Savannah! … [Read more...]
I spent part of this evening at a great event sponsored by the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce to commemorate the launch of ATDC Gwinnett -- a joint effort between Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. It's proof that the traditional rival universities can work well together. But, at every turn for the last few weeks, I've been asked: "What … [Read more...]
18BD4B9E-45B8-47CD-AAFF-8769D80A43AD.mov Watch on Posterous Georgia Tech Rambling Wreck parade: Sigma Nu's waterwheel machine. They had finally given up by the time they got to my end of the parade route. That white PVC pipe pumps water into the buckets, which turns the drivetrain. It worked downhill... I think I'll hang out at that end of … [Read more...]
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